Daily cosmobite: Moon near Uranus

November 5, 2014

By Andrew Jacob

The Moon passes the planet Uranus today as seen from Australian skies. That’s not so unusual, but this time observers in the icy north – Greenland and Iceland – will see the Moon occult, or cover, the ice giant Uranus.

The ice giant Uranus as seen by the Keck telescope. Lawrence Sromovsky (Univ. Wisconsin-Madison), Keck Observatory and APOD18NOV2004.